extraction

Extraction

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Kellan Lutz and Bruce Willis

Extraction is late-era Bruce Willis so it comes prejudged. Which, it must be said, is entirely Willis’s own fault. He didn’t have to sign on for so many sub-par actioners. Surely someone somewhere was offering him a decent gig at a decent screw? Maybe not. It also, on account of subsequent developments in Willis’s health, comes pre-forgiven. Anyhow, in keeping with many other “starring Bruce Willis” movies, this one doesn’t really star Bruce Willis. He plays a decommissioned CIA agent and the real star of the movie is Kellan Lutz, as the son of the retired dude. A desk jockey at the CIA, Harry Turner really wants to be a field agent like … Read more

26 August 2013-08-26

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Something in the Air

Out in the UK this week Something in the Air (Artificial Eye, cert 15, Blu-ray/DVD) If you’ve got any interest at all in how the revolutionary moment of 1968 spawned the postmodern (ie conservative) era that followed it, Olivier Assayas’s brilliant, period-distilling drama is for you. Following a wannabe artist from the revolutionary barricades of Paris, when it was required that all personal preferences came with political justification, through the long intellectual wrangles, splits, and factionalising of what was once called the Left, we follow a young man and woman on a journey that takes them from letting it all hang out to getting a decent job and knuckling down (or not). Musically … Read more